The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 12, 1920, Page 6

Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy won,.— Duke of Wellington. Greed Run Wild Retell sugar prices tn many cities have passed the SOcent mark. There is talk of S0cent sugar ahead. ‘The sugar profiteers are preparing ual canntug season raid,” Senator Capper de on the floor of the senate “For years the sugar Interests have openty and shamelessly robbed American housewives during the canning season,” he charged. “They have, with their extortionate charges, regularly blighted the poor families’ hope of putting up and storing away ‘& cheap aad wholesome supply of frutts and vere tablen © © «+* It ts piracy #0 colossal and | criminal that Captain Kidd and all the famous Pirates of history become Sunday school characters by comparison.” At the same time that prices are soartng and these charges being made, the Foreien Trade Record, fgsued by the National City bank of New York, “With sugar prices the ‘highest ever,’ the quantity being brought into the United States ts the ‘biggest ever’ Official figures of the movements of sugar a 1 for thetr “an lared | | | ° a om its own | {nto the United States, including that from islands, indicate that the quantity entering the coun | try in the fiscal year of 1920, which ends with June | | apparen roximate 9,000,000,000 pounds, as somes *. 750,000,000 in the former high record year year of 1919." Facts such as these show that the sugur situation, ‘fan it exists today, is perhaps the greatest single ex: of profiteering in history. The American Woolen Co. claims to make only $1.50 on a suit. No wonder. Think how high cotton is. To Whom Honor Is Due | J ‘The members of the efty council of Ada, Onto, Aare men of understanding and long memory. They | Rave just ordered two streets of their city renamed in honor of Mrs. Catherine Estill and Mra H Povenmire, keepers of college boarding houses, To the youth who ventures, callow and inept, into a new community, there ts no friend like the Kindly woman who takes him into her home as a hoarder. He may be a college freshman or a ma chinist just thru his apprenticeship. Happy, indeed, is he if he fall into the hands of a typical boarding house keeper such as these women of Ada. Not only to the huge demands of his stomach does she minister But homesickness, that racking malady from which every one of us has suffered for a space, has In her its chief refuge. & word, an extra helping of padding on a downcast evening, her mere womanly Presence, do far more than usually the tyro recog Rizes to bucy his spirits and to keep him going straight How many times does she “forget” his . beard-bill when he has been too extravagant to pay. How ready her response to joyous mood, her re Septivity of enthusiasm. May many streets be Ramed for such a woman. May she be ensconced, too, in the recollection of the many, many careless nes to whom she has been kind. Some Yale instructors have been raised to $1,500 a year. A lecture concerning ways to live on $1,500 a year would be very in- structive. That’s Pep If you're the sort of a fellow whe can jump out of bed, prance around and hum a bit of a tune to Yourself, when the alarm clock bangs off in the! early morning— ‘That's pep! If you are given to crossing streets and can dodge | About and escape a million autos a day—and still Keep a smile on your face— ‘That'd pep! If you can drop from your bumble slumbers at 13 P. X. in the dark hours of night and cheerfully qwalk the croupy baby on a kitchen to parlor mara ‘That's pep! If you can breeze into your workaday job. carly and keep plugging away in spite of crabby folk | fn the office and other little tmpedimenta— ‘That's pep! IN THE EDITOR’S MAIL RAPS CAR SERVICE \eity, but something ts radically| | wrong with her street car system. If ,@he has outgrown her system why | can't there at least be men in charge of these cars who have ordinary eourtesy? I have been in a good many large cities, but never @have I met with such discourteous treatment as I have been accorded in a month's stay in Seattle. Not once have I} been on a car but I have left it in| almost a rage. By the time I get on a car I haven't car wished to go. car”. already crowded. | cers. | might suppose, but runs swiftly [the car became dimbied. At 59th, Just a word of the impreasion Seat. | *t. I believe, we were all transferred. agement? fle street car men make on outof-| We only wished to go to T2nd mt. and town visitors, Seattle is a wonderful following us was a “Tind st. Only” a Stopped, tut the gates were | up. never opened. The conductor tnform-| don't pay for It? ed un the car only went to 72nd and we replied that was our destination. |corner o , fit oa et ee on all the discourteous men again we mld T2nd st. was where we “Aw, take the next ding ding—off tt goes. The next car was a thru car and conductor was dotng his duty he would have taken all 72nd st. passen-| How many men do you know who| Pubtianed Dally by The Bitar Publishing Co, Phone Main 400 as a battle| Father and the Boys Up to a certain time every fther te an intellectual | hero to his son. fle can help him add up the) longest stringy of figures for the arttiimetic lesson | at school, And mubtraction ts as easy an ple to him. A wonderful fellow in dad! ‘Then one day the boy comes home with a problem | tn proportion; or with one that has to do with dect mals, or algebra. By George, how that boy ts growing up It seems only yesterday that he was trying to learn the addition table up to ten. “Dad.” he mys, “how do you do this problem? Dad scratches his head. At last he must step down from the Intellectual pedestal on which the bey bad placed htm. Hut he has always bean frank with the hey and be remaing so tn this crista “It's something I've forgotten,” he confers at last, Rut deep down he's very proud. “That bey of mine ts some kid.” he tells hin friends the next day. “He's beginning to show me up.” It's a wine father who can remain an Intellectual hero in the eyes of his son, But it's a mighty | poor one who cannot remain his son's moral hero the boy's exemplar of charncter; the kind of father | the boy likes to quote admiringty in after years “There was my father. He used to say. Shorter skirts may lower prices, if they'll wear ‘em longer. The Blind Farmer John Chase ts 61. And blind. But for years he has farmed successfully at Sturbridge, Mans, He spades. He planta, He harvests his own crops Potatoes. Corn. Beans. | Planting he found easy, by stringing a line of cord) to guide his hand. When the harvest & in he cuts cord-wood | The point to be made here ts not that do the work in «pite of handicap, but that more work and better work than a man with ati The reason is simple, A man with sight will stop to watch every permon or team that passea Other! things constantly distract his attention from hi work. But the pind man concentrates. His attention ts not so easily or so frequently taken from the task | at hand | Chase soon found that he spaded more ground | in a day than two young men with sight had) spaded. When he planted, the precision of the rows| he set out was the subject of comment thruout his neighborhood This efficiency ts shown also by blind men and! women in factories, No longer arp blind men ex-| pected to devote their efforts to a certain few tb paid crafts, An increasing number are belng em ployed in machine shope and other planta at good wages. They are particularly effective in packing ‘mall articles, or goods like butter and eges for shipment. he could he does | ; If you can't come up to the scratch, don’t irritate. Big folks and little folks can a44 to thetr pleasures by careful study of the birds, Every one may be come interested in it. Naturally bird study ts a hobby test followed out of doors with our feathered friends in their Proper environment. Good eyesight and careful ot servation are necessary to gain the best resulta A pair of field or opera glanes wil! anist in “bringing the birds up to you.” Time «pent tn the outdoors will be a phywicn! ald, too, so one has both a physical! and mental string to his bow while following birds m their flight—their names, their diet, mating, their quarrels, thelr colors, their Bird Study | the their | nesting | and thelr economic value. | For something casy, learn about the robin. Note his song. Li as he sings in the early dawn. | Note the difference from that of sunset. Notice his| rain song. Notice that he does not bop, as one Note his unerring dash after the worm. Note how he uses his breast as @ trowel to smooth the interior of bis mu®-| plastered home. Note his rough weaving. Introductions to the birds generally ix followed by | lasting friendships. Get acquainted Is it the fault of the rallway man- Ty it becanse the men are not pald living wage and the old ery comen| “You can't have service if you| Or ts it posible that Seattle has a in the Weet? If no. they must be on her street cars, as citizens with whom we have come in contact are | very courteous and ewer ready to help the stranger w A CALIFOR: in thetr gates, | If that T2nd at. TA VISITOR. }do just an they plea Any disposition left. There is a party of friends with me who feel the game and we are visiting friends who @re anything but proud of the treat- and I have been on the rightscorner. the Phinney line,we go there pre- wait. A car will finally and stop at the emerg- at 39th st. Never open the If, it wasn't for the fact that I was able to crowd into an already over. erowded jitney I would have missed “T have nb keen desire to live within the White Honse walla, I've seen them from the family #ide and know their pleasure pall But I believe my duty leads to where : ria a I hand out no campaign cigars, or even tutti fruttf; I do not kiss the babies’ cheeks and I onty run because I'm told ft ts my POKEN PEECH of the candidates, as imagined by EDMUND VANCE COOKE. my duty calls! praise their budding beauty; McAdooty, McAdoo, McAdoo! It's my McAdooty #0 to do. Jin | Now he ts a sponges, | immeamirable @ train that I had left the house in ‘ample time to catch Last Sunday we waited for a car $0 go out beyond Woodland park. In ome hour there was a “Woodland | Park Only” car crowded. We let that go by. Next car had “Full Car” sign. Next two cars were Everett cars. Next was a Phinney with a ‘erowd on but no “Full Car” sign, but Mt rambled right along. One would imagine in anticipation of a Sunday crowd extra cars would put on. This inn't the only city the U. 8. that has crowds to take of. The city of Portland, with narrow streets, handles crowds Jarge as Seattle in compari- the size of pie Hark! ‘tis duty calling, calling you know wha Calling, calling, calling ‘McAdoo? “Tis I who ran the Treasury and rateed the revenue; I sacrificed my own career to see the nation thru, And if you vote the way you bought, you'll vote for McAdoo I did my little job so well and took it all #0 coolly, ‘That when the raflronds needed help, they called upon Yours Truly» And I became #o popular, they namgd me McAdooley, McAdoo, McAdoo! * McAdooley-ooley-ooley-oo! When they had an extra job that no else could do, You always heard them calling, ‘McAdoo! “The people said it takes a—(horrid word!) a Master Noodle (I hate the term) the Nation's boodle To run the railroads and And in their patriotic pride, they call me McAdoodle! So if you ask who should be chosen, if you ask me who, Hear the democratic rooster sing his song to you! Hear his clarion cry repeating ‘McAdoodle do? Me®Adoo, McAdoo! McAdoodle doodle do! Every morning this reveille shakes the whole world thru, Calling, calling ‘McAdoo will do!” Copyright, 1920. N. mH A) THE SEATTLE STAR.-WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 1920. ‘ THE REVELATIONS OF MOV. ING DAY 3Y DR. FRANK CRANE NAVE Just been moving. thane teara, | Out of top shelves ahd bottom drawers have crept things I had for mitten, as conoraled olf ortmes craw! out of the recesses of memory, 1 do not want to keep them; I do not want to throw them away. 80 back they go into new dark holes for an OTier seven years. Moving i Ike the day of Judy ment. You realize what you have tone Wherever potatoes are planted po. tato bugs come, no one knows from where. And tomate tugs and tobar co worms appear where there plant» are cultivated, even if there has been no plant of the kind within a hun dred miles for a hundred years. ‘This is one of the earth's mysteries. Hxactly so wherever sprouts the fenus homo, there you find the ewn bug ying on him | Gratually, as It epreads tts venom | bis veing the deadly bacillus hangers a man from a freq locomo tive creature tote « fixed and rooted Using. He becomes half plant, one | of these plant animals that are found tn the borteriand betwren the kingtoma, a pantacrints onputme. | dusae, fastened to a house and lot, | waving about ax far as the grocery Hence jand back. There ts a certain banker, neems to be a man He He wan a man Then the own bug hit him. ttached to a mahogany desk; the currents of hu manity Qow by; he sucks out the money | I know a woman who cannot leave | ome because she owns a pup. | I know another has spent and am of though force and worry | or 8 lot of old furniture. She n more is a woman is & worm in| who in, wate, pores abe 4 Wwoodpile 1 know a book ¢ £0 ceaned to be w lector, who long a living soul, a about between bh a @ coral insect infewts| calcareous avenues of ite| wriggies hook canes the dark, reef. 1 know « young married coupte who have berun housekeeping with enough old jank to supply two sec ond-hand shopa. You your way thru thelr living beastie thru thick und I know a woman who whatnota full of bisque and marble| and glans and wool and gold gim-| cracks. I never look at them but Ij think of Thoreau, who owned a pretty stone he once found in the woods, but threw ft away when he mw that he would have to dust it./ One of the pleasant elements af} dying ts the thought that at last 1/ shall be free from that stuff in the| bureau drawers and on the closet] shelvea. thread r has four} ot jn. 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Do you member how years ago somebod the family would my on @ summer evening or a pleasant Sunday after 1. go out for a nice treet car ride"? re in oon, “Lat's tata ne ANSWERS Why docs a b feemer carry & thermometer? To keep track of his degrees. brow college pro- A. B Please tell me why an elevator man never gives anyboty the once over?—I. M He'n too busy giving ‘em the up and down | In what way does a clarinet re semble a book?—H. W. D. They are both reed instruments. Can you tell me the difference be tween the hands of a clock and sol ier rifes?—T. D. There are no arma on the hands of a clock and there are no hands on the arma. If @ ball player fotned the army in what branch of the servic he be the most valuable?—E. 0. C An a member of the battery QUESTIONS WE CANNOT ANSWER Do refined folk ever eat a cours @inner?—T. J. Ht Please decide a bet: Does a plant make a noise when it shoots?—F. |B. M. When a typist wishes to borrow money # he use the touch sys. tem?—Hi. B. Hf Are soft drinks now served be hind jail bars?—D. D. G. ‘The claw tn one of the windows That Dollar a Giance Money is a hard worker and will earn profitable div- idends for you é it is kept employed. Decide now to place Your Sabings where they will Earn sub- Stantial returns. Your money in this. Strong Savings Association ‘will work and “ry for you constantly, reward your hrift. a Resources now over Four Million Dollars Puget Sound Savings & Loan Association Where Pike St. Crosses Third OUR HOURS ARB ete BM hye in my house ts stained. What will remove the stain?—R. 8. W Wanted-—Paperhanging. Wanted-Paperhanging ready to hang paper, clean walls, and to do Inside and outside paint ing. My charges are right. A Blume, phone 2330 1 am now bi Adver jtinement in Michigan City dnd.| News. Another Royal Suggestion Iam now Rev. | 4 Under Direction of Dr. Rupert Blue, U. 8. Public Health f POISO Accidéntal poisoning may be pre) vented to @ very great extent by never tasting taking anything into the mouth which i# not plainly | labelled. It in also very wine to hoor | «ll potvona, when they must be kept on band, in « safe place and under | lack and key | Sudden and severe #icknens short ly after eating, drinking, or taking medicine, in a person who has been in good health, is often a symptom of potoning or If & number of persons, who have eaten same food, become sert yusly {ll after a meal, it i# almont certain that they are suffering from poisoning, probably from that form of polsoning which is due to decayed fermented ar rotten food, and which is termed “ptomaine poisoning.” Such accidents should always be re ported to the Department of Health for careful investigation In all cases of surpected poisoning send for a doctor at once, Direct the mesnenger to tell the doctor that the person has been polwoned and give the name of the suspected pol non if no that the doctor may bring the proper antidote® Do not wait for the dortor to ar-| rive but give an emetic to aid in rid. ding the boty of the unabsorbed potson. Warm water, mustard and water, malt water, tpecac or other | common emetic may be employed, or | the patient's throat may be tickled | to produce vomiting, Do not waste! time in looking up the proper done | of an emetic, and repent if profuse | vomiting Goee net result | the ponnibl ANSWERED Q WT! an operation for entarged | thyroid glands produce marked dis- |turbance of body functions? | A. Disorders of the thyrold giand | produce disturbances, and in same cases an operation, instead of successfully controlling or removing | these disturbances, appears to inten nity the trouble. It is guggested that you consult your family physi cian and, if neceasiry, have him re-| fer you to some good epecialint. ! —_—_— COOKIES and SMALL CAKES From the New Roya. 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